The introduced mineral deposit model (MDM) is the product of a trans-disciplinary study, based on Complexity and General Systems Theory. Both investigate the abstract organization of phenomena, independent of their substance, type, or spatial or temporal scale of existence. The focus of the research has been on giant, hydrothermal mineral deposits. They constitute <0.001% of the total number of deposits yet contain 70-85% of the world's metal resources. Giants are the definitive exploration targets. They are more profitable to exploit and less susceptible to fluctuations of the market. Consensus has it that the same processes that generate small deposits also form giants but those processes are simply longer, vaster, and larger. Heat is the dominant factor in the genesis of giant mineral deposits. A paleothermal map shows where the vast heat required to generate a giant has been concentrated in a large space, and even allows us to deduce the duration of the process. To generate a paleothermal map acceptable to the scientific community requires reproducibility. Experimentation with various approaches to pattern recognition of geochemical data showed that the AUTOCLUST algorithm not only gave reproducibility but also gave the most consistent, most meaningful results. It automatically extracts boundaries based on Voronoi and Delaunay tessellations. The user does not specify parameters; however, the modeller does have tools to explore the data. This approach is near ideal in that it removes much of the human-generated bias. This algorithm reveals the radial, spatial distribution, of gold deposits in the Lachlan Fold Belt of southeastern Australia at two distinct scales – repeating patterns every ~80 km and ~230 km. Both scales of patterning are reflected in the geology. The ~80 km patterns are nested within the ~230 km patterns revealing a self-similar, geometrical relationship. It is proposed that these patterns originate from Rayleigh-Bénard convection in the mantle. At the Rayleigh Number appropriate for the mantle, the stable planform is the spoke pattern, where hot mantle material is moving upward near the centre of the pattern and outward along the radial arms. Discontinuities in the mantle, Rayleigh-Bénard convection in the mantle, and the spatial distribution of giant mineral deposits, are correlative. The discontinuities in the Earth are acting as platforms from which Rayleigh-Bénard convection can originate. Shallow discontinuities give rise to plumelets, which manifest at the crust as repeating patterns ranging, from ~100 to ~1,000 km in diameter. Deeper discontinuities give rise to plumes, which become apparent at the crust as repeating patterns ranging from >1,000 to ~4,000 km in diameter. The deepest discontinuities give rise to the superplumes, which become detectable at the crust as repeating patterns ranging from >4,000 to >10,000 km in diameter. Rayleigh-Bénard convection concentrates the reservoir of heat in the mantle into specific locations in the crust; thereby providing the vast heat requirements for the processes that generate giant, hydrothermal mineral deposits. The radial spatial distribution patterns observed for gold deposits are also present for base metal deposits. At the supergiant Broken Hill deposit in far western New South Wales, Australia, the higher temperature Broken Hill-type deposits occur in a radial pattern while the lower temperature deposits occur in concentric patterns. The supergiant Broken Hill deposit occurs at the very centre of the pattern. If the supergiant Broken Hill Deposit was buried beneath alluvium, water or younger rocks, it would now be possible to predict its location with accuracy measured in tens of square kilometres. This predictive accuracy is desired by every exploration manager of every exploration company. The giant deposits at Broken Hill, Olympic Dam, and Mount Isa all occur on the edge of an annulus. There are at least two ways of creating an annulus on the Earth's surface. One is through Rayleigh-Bénard convection and the other is through meteor impact. It is likely that only 'large' meteors (those >10 km in diameter) would have any permanent impact on the mantle. Lesser meteors would leave only a superficial scar that would be eroded away. The permanent scars in the mantle act as ‘accidental templates’ consisting of concentric and possibly radial fractures that impose those structures on any rocks that were subsequently laid down or emplaced over the mantle. In southeastern Australia, the proposed Deniliquin Impact structure has been an 'accidental template' providing a 'line-of-least-resistance' for the ascent of the ~2,000 km diameter, offshore, Cape Howe Plume. The western and northwestern radial arms of this plume have created the very geometry of the Lachlan Fold Belt, as well as giving rise to the spatial distribution of the granitic rocks in that belt and ultimately to the gold deposits. The interplay between the templating of the mantle by meteor impacts and the ascent of plumelets, plumes or superplumes from various discontinuities in the mantle is quite possibly the reason that mineral deposits occur where they do.

In der vorliegenden Arbeit konnte gezeigt werden, dass die numerischen simulationen einer freien Rayleigh-Bénard-Konvektion und einer rein elektromagnetisch angetriebenen gezeiten-artigen Strömung in einem stehenden zylindrischen Volumen mit einem Seitenverhältnis Г = D/H = 1 und seitlich angelegten Magnetspulen eine gute Übereinstimmung mit entspre-chenden Experimenten aufweisen. Kombiniert man beide Mechanismen und moduliert die Lorentzkraft, so zeigen sich in den Frequenzspektren der Helizität in zwei Halbräumen des Volumens deutliche Maxima an der Modulationsfrequenz. Eine solche Helizitätssynchronisierung durch Gezeitenkräfte wird derzeit als mögliche Erklärung für die hohe Regularität des Sonnendynamos diskutiert. Des Weiteren wird die in freier Konvektion auftretende langsame azimutale Wanderung der Konvektionszelle unterdrückt. Der Schwingungswinkel der azimutalen Schwappbewegung nimmt dabei ab und die in der Strömung dominante Frequenz erhöht sich. Die durch die zwei unterschiedlichen Antriebsmechanismen erzeugten Strömungsstrukturen bleiben in der Strömung eigenständig erhalten und treten in gegenseitige Interaktion.:1. Einleitung 2. Grundlagen 2.1. Rayleigh-Bénard-Konvektion 2.2. MHD - Magnetohydrodynamik 2.3. Wichtige Aspekte des numerischen Modells 3. Modellerstellung 3.1. Geometrie 3.2. Numerisches Modell 3.2.1. Elektromagnetisches Modell in Opera 3.2.2. Modell der Strömungsberechnung in OpenFOAM 4. Ergebnisse 4.1. Ergebnisse der freien Rayleigh-Bénard-Konvektion 4.2. Ergebnisse der nichtmodulierten elektromagnetischen Strömungsanregung ohne Temperaturgradient 4.3. Ergebnisse der zeitmodulierten elektromagnetischen Strömungsanregung ohne Temperaturgradient 4.4. Ergebnisse der elektromagnetisch beeinflussten Rayleigh-Bénard-Konvektion 4.4.1. Auswirkung der elektromagnetischen Beeinflussung auf die Strömungsstruktur 4.4.2. Vergleich ausgewählter Ergebnisse der numerischen Untersuchung und des Experimentes 4.4.3. Auswirkung der elektromagnetischen Beeinflussung auf die Helizität 5. Zusammenfassung und Fazit